NBA star LeBron James on Tuesday knocked President Trump over the national anthem protest controversy, saying his team would not attend an event at the White House if they win their championship series.

“It’s typical of him. I’m not surprised,” James told reporters on Tuesday when asked about Trump this week disinviting the NFL Super Bowl champion Philadelphia Eagles from the White House, according to USA Today.

James, who is participating in the NBA finals with the Cleveland Cavaliers, said that neither his team nor the Golden State Warriors want an invitation to a similar event celebrating their teams at the White House.

“I know no matter who wins this series, no one wants an invite anyway. It won’t be Cleveland or Golden State going,” he said, according to USA Today.

Trump abruptly announced on Monday that the Eagles would not visit the White House this week to celebrate their victory.

“The Philadelphia Eagles are unable to come to the White House with their full team to be celebrated tomorrow. They disagree with their President because he insists that they proudly stand for the National Anthem, hand on heart, in honor of the great men and women of our military and the people of our country,” Trump said in a statement.

“The Eagles wanted to send a smaller delegation, but the 1,000 fans planning to attend the event deserve better,” he added.

James on Tuesday also criticized Trump for not inviting the WNBA champions for a visit, telling journalists that it was “laughable” for the Minnesota Lynx to be excluded.

“For them not to be invited playing our beautiful game of basketball … those women are unbelievable at doing it,” he said.

The NBA star has previously criticized Trump, calling him a “bum” last year after Trump disinvited Stephen Curry and the Golden State Warriors from the White House after Curry said he didn’t want to go.

“Going to the White House was a great honor until you showed up!” James tweeted about Trump at the time.

He also encouraged future champions not to worry about getting a Trump invitation.

“Let’s not let someone inviting you from their house take away from their championship,” James told reporters. “Winning a championship is way bigger than getting invited to the White House, especially with him in it.”

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Using a series of large cards, Philadelphia Eagles star Malcolm Jenkins delivers a message on the criminal justice system and NFL players' community involvement after President Trump canceled the team's ceremony at the White House earlier this week. pic.twitter.com/dRSYvKgGfg

So why didn't Obama commute Alice Johnson's life sentence? The DOJ recommended three times against it: once in first term, twice in second. The last denial came only days before he left office: 1/6/17. Under Obama, the request didn't reach the Oval Office because DOJ denied.

I can tell you the view from Hong Kong in Asia. The US is seen as a very rapidly declining and unraveling power. it has become a parish nation out of touch with the world economy, managing itself far worse than Britain in it’s decline. All manner of respect is gone. https://t.co/8VXYiWoRJl

Hmm.Wonder who's using whom?No laws have been changed.No one else has had a commutation.No commissions have been formed.Nothing coming out of the Justice Department.Good for this one person though…she's now a celebrity too.

We shouldn't celebrate a celebrity manipulating a president. Even when Alice Johnson deserved to be pardoned, it should frighten us that the person in our highest office can be persuaded to do anything just with some flattery.

Perhaps I missed it, but in 8 years I never heard Eddie Glaude reverentially refer to the historic first black First Lady as the ‘First Lady’..

Today I heard him refer so to a lazy, imported Birther, gold-digging 3rd wife who lied about having a college degree and boasted about writing a speech that was found to be plagiarized from the historic black FLOTUS..

Eddie who made no distinction ever, but routinely yoked in Mrs Obama in his hostile snark dripping critiques targeting her elected husband, (who Eddie was never pleased with), sat around a table today with others …and they all were careful to talk-up as ‘beautiful and classy, and deserving of her privacy’ the wife of the treasonous buffoon.. Careful to make a clear distinction …bending over to praise and boost and damsel-ize as usual..

Just as it was always ‘Mr Obama’ ..But suddenly they all can’t stop lap-doggingly calling a treasonous buffoon ‘president’ …’the president’.. And actually stopping to quickly correct themselves if they slip up and call the buffoon by name …or fail to use the honorific before it..

It’s all just so crazy watching this comedy-sprinkled dystopian nightmare play out, one can’t decide whether to to laugh or cry..

BAY RIDGE, Brooklyn — A man is facing deportation after he delivered a pizza to an Army base in Brooklyn and leaders in the borough are doing all they can to bring him home.

“They treated me like a criminal. I did not commit a crime,” Pablo Villavicencio said in Spanish.

He spoke to PIX11 News from an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detention center in New Jersey.

“My daughters need me,” he said. “My wife needs me.”

His family said Villavicencio could be deported as early as next week.

Villavicencio said he was delivering pizza, as he has done countless times before, to the Fort Hamilton Army Base on June 1. He said he showed his New York State identification card at the security gate and was allowed inside.

But when he reached the delivery address, he said, he was confronted by another officer and asked to show another form of identification which he did not have.

Villavicencio said he was detained by military officers, one of whom called ICE. Since then Villavicencio has not seen his family.

A top aide to Scott Pruitt, Millan Hupp, resigned from the Environmental Protection Agency, according to a source briefed on the matter and documents reviewed by The Atlantic. Her last day will be Friday.

Hupp, who worked as the director of scheduling and advance, has been entangled in many of the scandals dogging EPA Administrator Pruitt. In March, she was one of two aides who received hefty salary bumps, even after the White House refused Pruitt’s request for raises. And as The Washington Post reported on Monday, she recently testified to the House Oversight Committee that she regularly spent her days doing personal tasks for Pruitt, from hunting for housing to calling the Trump Hotel in Washington, D.C., to inquire about purchasing a used mattress.

According to one top EPA official, the 26-year-old was “tired of being thrown under the bus by Pruitt,” and weary of seeing her name constantly appear in headlines about the agency. Officials began drafting her resignation paperwork on Monday morning, just after portions of her congressional testimony were made public.

Hupp’s testimony contributed to the long list of scandals and improprieties plaguing the agency—including, most notably, that Pruitt rented a Capitol Hill condo from an energy lobbyist for just $50 a month, and spent more than $40,000 on a soundproof booth in his office on the taxpayers’ dime. For months now, according to multiple White House and EPA sources, officials as senior as Chief of Staff John Kelly have lobbied President Donald Trump to fire Pruitt.

JERUSALEM — Former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani says special counsel Robert Mueller’s team is trying to frame President Trump.

Giuliani, who has been serving as Trump’s lawyer amid the Russia scandal, says Wednesday in Israel that Mueller’s team includes “13 highly partisan Democrats … (who) are trying very very hard to frame him to get him in trouble when he hasn’t done anything wrong.”

Speaking to the Globes capital market conference in Tel Aviv, Giuliani says Trump has the power to pardon himself but won’t because he is innocent.

It was the latest in Giuliani’s often contradictory comments surrounding the probe into Russia’s potential meddling in U.S elections.

Let it not go unnoticed that the "Dems need to run on something other than against Trump" trope from political pundits is a terrible premise, strikingly lazy, and even if were a correct perception of the current dynamic, it would still be inaccurate. For so many reasons.

It pays to know what’s happening in our neck-o-the-woods, because the stenographers posing as journos are culpable LIARS, who read and hawk anything that’s put in front of them from the corporate OWNED media companies.

New Stormy Daniels lawsuit claims her former lawyer betrayed her and "hatched a plan" with Trump attorney Michael Cohen to get the adult film actress to publicly deny she had an affair with President Trump. https://t.co/0do0SvuDug

White House is fighting a plan to fund veterans health-care bill even as Trump signs it into law

The VA Mission Act authorizes new health-care programs for veterans, but the bill does not reserve federal money to pay for those programs. Behind the scenes, the White House is encouraging lawmakers to back off a plan to fund the $50 billion veterans health law.

THE LAST WORD WITH LAWRENCE O’DONNELL 6/5/18Lawrence: In Mueller’s probe, ‘it’s the money, stupid’
Trump’s former campaign chair Paul Manafort will find out next week if he’s going to jail for witness tampering but Lawrence argues that as the Russia probe unfolds: It all goes back to Trump and Manafort’s goal of making money for themselves above all. Natasha Bertrand, Matt Miller, and Paul Butler join Lawrence.

THE LAST WORD WITH LAWRENCE O’DONNELL 6/5/18United Nations: U.S. is violating human rights
As the President was lip-synching the National Anthem at an event supposedly about the National Anthem and football, the United Nations asserted that US is violating human rights by separating children from parents at the border. Maria Teresa Kumar joins Lawrence.

Described as Buckingham Palace on wheels, the lavish train is only used a handful of times a year. In 2017, it was used just 14 times at a cost of £900,000 to taxpayers. While it is very costly, it does provide a more comfortable ride for the 92-year-old monarch, especially when she travels overnight. The train, which was first used by Queen Victoria in 1842, has a luxurious smoking room, bedrooms with en-suite bathrooms and a 12-seater dining room.

Next Thursday, Meghan and the Queen will spend the day in Cheshire. They will open the Mersey Gateway Bridge before opening the Storyhouse Theatre – a fitting engagement for former actress Meghan, who was best known for her role in Suits. The pair will then attend a lunch at Chester Town Hall.

The Duchess’ day out with the Queen marks a milestone in her royal life. It is the first time she will carry out official duties without her husband Prince Harry, and will also be her first engagement with just the monarch. Meghan has previously accompanied the Queen on other engagements, such as at the Commonwealth Day service in March, but she was joined by other members of the royal family.

Don’t let Trump hear about this because he’ll try to demand a ride in it when he goes to the U.K. the same way he demanded that he be permitted to ride in the queen’s gold coach. I’ve read that May has told him being seen in London will not be a good move for him to attempt, so she has recommended that their meeting take place in another city. Imagine that, an American president who is so hated by the British that it is guaranteed he’d be met with a massive protest in London instead of a massive group of British citizens waiting to welcome him.

During the campaign, Ivanka Trump connected Michael Cohen with a Russian athlete who offered to introduce Trump to Putin to facilitate a Trump Tower Moscow, according to emails reviewed by BuzzFeed News and four sources. https://t.co/n81Sq1coxH

Stop lying to Veterans, Martha. The Mission Act is a step in the direction of giving profits to private providers on the backs of the Veterans who served our country. The VA is the best healthcare system in our country and you want to ruin it for $$$. Shame on you. #SaveOurVA

“I have full confidence in your courage and devotion to duty and skill in battle.” – General Dwight D. Eisenhower, in a message to troops before D-Day.

Courage. Devotion. Duty.

They are the words most often used to describe the brave Allied troops who landed on Normandy 74 years ago and helped win World War II.

Not to be forgotten, though, is this word: Technology.

World War II was won not just with courage, devotion and duty, but with American and British technological advances that gave Allied troops the upper hand in many facets of battle.

The most famous and fearsome: the Manhattan Project atomic bombs that led to the surrender of the Japanese in 1945. But there were many others.

Radar helped the Allies know what was coming at them from the enemy.

Bombsights employing complicated gyroscope technology allowed planes to pinpoint bomb attacks. Before World War II, pilots simply dropped bombs by hand and hoped for the best.

Nylon, the synthetic material invented by DuPont for women’s stockings, was used to make parachutes, glider tow ropes, aircraft fuel tanks and flak jackets, according to Smithsonian magazine. Some people dubbed it “the fiber that won the war.”

But one of the most crucial bits of technology, the one that helped the Allies launch the surprise attack on Normandy, was the hull of a boat — the Higgins boat.

You have probably seen pictures of this hulking nautical miracle, the one that carried troops right onto Normandy’s beach.

It was built by a wily, hard-drinking inventor named Andrew Higgins, the man Dwight D. Eisenhower once credited with winning World War II.

“It is Higgins himself who takes your breath away,” Raymond Moley, a former FDR adviser, wrote in Newsweek in 1943. “Higgins is an authentic master builder, with the kind of will power, brains, drive and daring that characterized the American empire builders of an earlier generation.”

Let’s go back to June 5th PM. As our Paratroopers were boarding, they were read a letter from Ike. It read, in part: “You are about to embark upon the Great Crusade. The eyes of the world are upon you. The hopes and prayers of liberty-loving people everywhere march with you.” pic.twitter.com/xrvx269ikv

EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt wanted his wife to have a Chick-Fil-A franchise. So he got a senior EPA aide to call the company's CEO — and then later met with the CEO himself. It didn't work out. Our latest: https://t.co/pwpiiwnDMs

Jealousy is never cute, beloved … especially on a white man. But here we are once again in Florida, this time in South Daytona, where a white man called his black neighbor a racial slur before setting the neighbor’s “flashy” car on fire.

Florida, man.

Ronald Sweet was outside, washing and waxing his silver 2002 Mercury, when he was approached by 56-year-old Joseph Minor, who began to verbally attack him for no reason. Click Orlando reports that Minor told Sweet that he was “flashy” and tossed in a racial slur (because why not) before ultimately threatening that he would “take care” of him and his vehicle, warning him that his days were numbered.

“I hate you, nigger,” Minor said to Sweet, according to the Daytona Beach News-Journal.

After a verbal altercation, Sweet and his fiancee, Cecilia Jones, went inside their apartment for the night, I guess ignoring Minor, Click Orlando reports. About 10 minutes later, around 12:35 a.m. Sunday, Sweet heard an explosion and looked out to see his car on fire, and Minor walking away.

Sweet and Jones told police that this was not the first time Minor had made threats, adding that he often used racial slurs when talking to them and other residents.

A Cambridge Analytica director apparently visited Julian Assange in February last year and told friends it was to discuss what happened during the US election, the Guardian has learned.

Brittany Kaiser, a director at the firm until earlier this year, also claimed to have channelled cryptocurrency payments and donations to WikiLeaks. This information has been passed to congressional and parliamentary inquiries in the UK and US.

“…Brexiteer Nigel Farage is alleged to have slipped a USB stick containing data to WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange during a secret trip to the Ecuadorian embassy.

The former UKIP leader is said to have met Mr Assange, who has been holed up at the London address for more than five years, on several occasions.

The claims were made by Fusion GPS boss Glenn Simpson, the co-founder of the investigative firm behind the controversial “Trump dossier” which was released by former British spy Christopher Steele.

Mr Simpson said while there had been reports of one visit Mr Farage made to the Ecuadorian embassy – where Mr Assange has been living since 2012 to avoid extradition to Sweden – he believed the pair had met more often than is widely known.

Mr Farage was pictured leaving the Ecuadorian embassy on March 9 last year… He campaigned openly for the billionaire businessman and US reality TV star, and was one of the first people to meet him in Trump Tower after his election victory.

He also hired the top floor of an exclusive five-star hotel in Washington DC to host a party celebrating Mr Trump’s inauguration…”

What pisses me off is that Pamela Anderson took her behind to Fox News yesterday to call Assange a “hero.” She doesn’t seem to keep abreast of the latest coverage about Assange, and the fact that the Ecuadorians want to kick his butt out of their embassy in London for breaking their rules in regard to interfering in other nations’ affairs while living on their property.

She was so desperate to impress him by acting on his behalf …she even tried to suck up to the buffoon’s 3rd wife… by gifting her a Russian-made faux-fur coat.. And they both showed off their albeit fleeting, warped symbiotic exploitation of each other at the time… just post the January 20 take-over he helped maneuver..

“..Following news of her unlikely friendship (and possible romance) with Julian Assange, Baywatch actress and animal activist Pamela Anderson has publicized yet another relationship that makes us pause and say “Huh? Really? Them?” And this time it’s with Melania Trump.

On Wednesday, Anderson tweeted out a photo of a letter from Melania Trump thanking her for a faux-fur coat she had sent her post-inauguration.

Per CNN, “Anderson’s gift was a faux lamb fur coat — with vegan belt — made by Russian faux fur company, Only Me, and accompanied it with a letter saying in part: ‘I am so happy that you chose not to wear fur! As first lady, you will help set style trends, and by remaining compassionate with your choices, you will warm the hearts of many.’”

Several photos of Trump over the years have shown her clad in some very real over-the-top fur garments, but apparently her tune has changed: Her communications director, Stephanie Grisham, confirmed that “she does not wear fur.”

There's a long history of tyrannical governments using athletics as a stage for reinforcing the power of the state. That's what 45 attempts to do in this moment by using NFL as platform to demonstrate both his power & the supremacy of Anglo America 2/

Now Smoky, I ain’t the smartest woman in the world but maybe many of the Eagles were skipping The White House because the president called them “sons of bitches.” Sitting down w/ ppl who you disagree w/ is part of being an adult. Sitting down w/ someone who disrespects you? Nah.

Funny how I can't recall the total outrage, shunning and wanting a head on the platter over Brian Williams. Instead, he got a nightly show. So do these concerned trolls, I mean reporters want Joy to never work again? #ImwithJoy

Kate Spade and Co donated handbags to our scholars, so they'd show up at their internships looking great and feeling great. They always downplayed their gift, and maybe this sounds silly, but it was a big deal for our young women to show up to an important gig with a great bag. https://t.co/EbmpfSVhxZ

In his memoir, “Twelve Years a Slave,” Solomon Northup, described a slave auction where a woman and her little daughter were sold to different buyers. “Never have I seen such an exhibition of intense, unmeasured and unbounded grief,” he wrote. https://t.co/rtORIiuOZn

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